آبادی

Gawar-Bati

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu آبادی (ābādī), from Persian آبادی.

Noun

آبادی (ābādī)

1. house, residence
2. individuals, people

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄ʾtyh /⁠ābādīh⁠/, “prosperity”). By surface analysis, آباد (ābād / âbâd, “prosperous”) +‎ ـی (-ī / -i).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.baː.ˈdiː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɑː.d̪íː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɑː.d̪íː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɑː.d̪íː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.bɔː.d̪í]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.bɒː.d̪íː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.bɔ.d̪í]

Readings
Classical reading?	ābādī
Dari reading?	ābādī
Iranian reading?	âbâdi
Tajik reading?	obodi

Noun

آبادی • (ābādī / âbâdi) (Tajik spelling ободӣ)

1. village
2. prosperity

Descendants

• → Bengali: আবাদী (abadi)
• → Hindi: आबादी (ābādī)
• → Ottoman Turkish: آبادی (abadi)
  • Turkish: abadi

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آبادی (ābādi). Equivalent to آباد (ābād) +‎ ـی (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.bɑː.d̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: آ‧با‧دی

Noun

آبادی • (ābādī) f

1. population
2. settlement

   Synonym: بستی (bastī)

Declension

Declension of آبادی

	singular	plural
direct	آبادی (ābādī)	آبادِیاں (ābādiyā̃)
oblique	آبادی (ābādī)	آبادِیوں (ābādiyō̃)
vocative	آبادی (ābādī)	آبادِیو (ābādiyō)

Further reading

• “آبادی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “آبادی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آبادی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.